DuPont's Fight Against Counterfeit Trader in UAE Ends Successfully

9:17 AM MDT | July 17, 2012 | Sotirios Frantzanas

DuPont Refrigerants, a subsidiary of DuPont, says it has successfully completed a five-year effort to achieve shutdown of a suspected trader of counterfeit refrigerants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The counterfeit activities of the trader were also reaching Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan, the company says. DuPont's efforts started in 2007 when a suspected trader of counterfeit refrigerants was identified in a market survey, the company says. The counterfeits were found in a warehouse operated by the suspected trader in the UAE in 2008. A raid...